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GOOD PRACTICES COLLECTED BY MEDORO

CASE STUDY N°1
Name of the SVI.MED.- EuroMediterranean Center for the Sustainable Development-
company/Thematic https://www.svimed.eu/website/en/
Profile SVIMED IS a no profit Organization providing for the respect and the safeguard of
cultural and environmental heritage, according to the Goteborg Sustainable
Development Strategy.
SVIMED aims at supporting the processes of sustainable development of the
territory, through the active collaboration of the Institutions and the Local and
Regional bodies, in order to implement processes of development within the
European Mediterranean space. Since many years, SVIMED has created national
and international networks, by implementing good practices, producing
decisional support tools, transferring know-how and elaborating and sharing
strategies and models of development drawing on the 1995 Barcellona
Declaration that contemplates: “Turning the Euro-mediterranean area into a
common space of peace, stability and prosperity through the strengthening of
political dialogue, the understanding between cultures and the promotion of
social, cultural and human partnerships for developing the human resources and
promoting the exchanges among civil societies.” SVIMED invests energies and
resources in sustaining, through concrete actions, the European policies of
cohesion and the effectiveness of the Goteborg Sustainable Development
Strategy, through the research, promotion, exploitation and the safeguard of the
resources and the environmental and cultural heritage, in a vision of sustainable
and harmonic development of territories.

The main objectives are:
● To sustain the social and territorial cohesion.

● To contribute to the protection of the environmental resources and
cultural heritage.
● To integrate competitiveness and protection of the environment

● To strengthen the international cooperation

● To open virtuous and sustainable debates on development.
o dialogue with Mediterranean Countries facing joint cultural and
environmental challenges.

Svimed works in support of the local Public Administration and through
participation in European programs.
Challenge The structure has 5 employees and a CEO. Work organization is focused on high
levels of flexibility and professionalism. It is a female staff with the exception of
the administrator. This feature meant that in the pre-pandemic period, two staff
units worked from their homes because they lived in locations quite distant from
the place of work.
After, staff worked from home to avoid contagions. For the CEO, the challenge
was to pursue the effectiveness of the working group, control over the
achievement of objectives and compliance with deadlines.
Solution The solution adopted was to schedule daily coordination meetings using the
GMeet platform.